On 07/21/2014 08:32 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On 20/07/14 23:58, Steve Dougherty wrote:
>> On 07/20/2014 03:03 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
>>> On 20/07/14 18:27, Steve Dougherty wrote:
>>>> Thanks to nextgens we've finally restructured the repositories on
>>>> GitHub. There are backups of all the deleted repositories here:
>>>> https://archives.freenetproject.org/github-backups-official/
>>>>
>>>> The changes:
>>>>
>>>> * Repositories with names ending in "-staging" are renamed to remove
>>>>   the "-staging". GitHub redirects the old names to the new.
>>>> * Repositories with names ending in "-official" are deleted. They were
>>>>   strict subsets of the "-staging" repositories.
>>>> * The IpToCountry is deleted. It had a single commit from 2011 with a
>>>>   copy of database.
>>>> * The testnet repositories are deleted.
>>> Why? Just because it isn't in use now doesn't mean we won't need it in
>>> future. IMHO it is necessary for it to be a separate repository to keep
>>> things cleanly separated.
>> I agree the separation is good, and if it comes into use again I have no
>> problem with it being put back up. Currently it was just an example of
>> bitrot.
> The problem is that there are changes that are needed to go from fred to
> testnet, and these require quite a bit of work. Deleting the repository
> means somebody has to do that work all over again (or this will result
> in not using testnet). Granted some of it changes, e.g. how the
> installers are built, and will need changing anyway...

No need to do them again - it still exists, just not on GitHub:
https://archives.freenetproject.org/github-backups-official/Testnet.git/

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